Scoop - Hardcover

Evelyn Waugh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316926175 ISBN 13: 9780316926171

Publisher: Little, Brown, 1977

Synopsis

Lord Copper, proprietor of the Daily Beast, is persuaded to send fashionable novelist John Boot as a foreign correspondent to cover the civil war in the African republic of Ishmaelia. But owing to a case of mistaken identity he actually sends William Boot, a nature writer.

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Review:

Evelyn Waugh was one of literature's great curmudgeons and a scathingly funny satirist. Scoop is a comedy of England's newspaper business of the 1930s and the story of William Boot, a innocent hick from the country who writes careful essays about the habits of the badger. Through a series of accidents and mistaken identity, Boot is hired as a war correspondent for a Fleet Street newspaper. The uncomprehending Boot is sent to the fictional African country of Ishmaelia to cover an expected revolution. Although he has no idea what he is doing and he can't understand the incomprehensible telegrams from his London editors, Boot eventually gets the big story.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0316926175
• ISBN 13: 9780316926171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 321